I have absolutely nothing against taking fact-checking seriously and using it as a tool, in the long run, to break the political stalemate.
But that said... how exactly is "Hillary Democrats Are The Heart And Conscience Of America" a fact you can verify with a code?
And THAT said... how is that even related to the Hillary quote? They are like vaguely related at best.
@abbenm Verrit appears to be an attempt at making a left-wing Breitbart. The only thing more terrifying than their thinking this will work is the possibility that it will.
@abbenm Their ad copy is "we fact-check every story we post here and we have an evidentiary standard on what we report." This is, of course, belied by the fact that half their posts are opinion pieces which can be "fact"-"checked" by asking the authors if they wrote the glurge in question.
@literorrery yeah, that's precisely my issue with it. I actually don't have any problem with the premise. I think there are such things as facts and truth, etc.
But the quotes I'm seeing on the front page are big-picture judgments that don't have any clear way to be fact-checked.
At best, I guess it's a way to verify that someone did say the thing they're quoted as saying.
@abbenm At worst, it's an attempt to hamfistedly shove editorial content past the fact-checkers by giving it the same "looks like news!" tagging. Either way, I'm not comfortable.
@literorrery I have a feeling verrit will be targeted with misinformation and fake codes for exactly this reason
@literorrery I still don't entirely undertand what it is, but from seeing role played by "codes" for authentication, it seems like they want fact checking to play some sort of role.